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Writing Quotes by Henry Miller
- One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
- It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated…
- The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication…
- You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of…
- There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a…
- Writing is its own reward.
- He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his…
- I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts,…
- America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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